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The Daily Article

Hurricane Dorian and the Hunkerdown Hideaway: Offering an ‘oblation’ to God

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

Christianity, News, Daily News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Thousands of experts are trying to predict Hurricane Dorian's path. Today's podcast shows us how to trust what we do not understand to the God who does.

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This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians.

0:07.8

To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit

0:12.4

thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

0:20.1

Hurricane Dorian turned north overnight and is about 100 miles off of Florida's East

0:25.5

Coast this morning.

0:26.9

At least seven people were killed in the Bahamas.

0:30.1

Dozens are still being rescued from floodwaters.

0:32.8

The Category 2 storm, with winds of 110 miles per hour, is lashing central Florida's east coast today. Flash

0:40.5

floods in a life-threatening storm surge are expected. More than two million people in Florida, Georgia,

0:46.3

and North and South Carolina have been warned to evacuate. Not everyone is leaving, however. Employees of

0:52.8

the hunker-down hideaway in downtown Cocoa Beach, Florida,

0:56.3

vowed to remain open till the police shut us down. Some say that the expense of evacuating

1:01.7

and the income they would miss make leaving almost impossible for them. Their dilemma could be

1:07.1

solved if they knew where, or if, the hurricane would strike land.

1:11.8

It's an outstanding fact in our day of remarkable technological sophistication

1:15.9

that such vital and practical information is unavailable to those who need it most.

1:23.8

Our problem is not that our best people aren't doing their best. The National Weather Service employs 2,600 operational meteorologists and hydrologists.

1:33.3

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 2019 budget exceeds $5 billion.

1:40.3

And yet, using the most advanced technology in history, our best meteorological scientists are still unable to predict the precise path of a hurricane.

1:50.0

The consequences of this fact are staggering.

1:52.7

The Congressional Budget Office estimates government costs for hurricanes at $28 billion a year.

1:59.4

Coastal shoreline counties generate 40% of America's jobs

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